CVE-2026-35501 (GCVE-0-2026-35501)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-21 08:56 – Updated: 2026-10-21 08:56
VLAI
Title
Bypass of a configured island trust anchor underneath an insecure parent from an atacker-controlled NSEC record.
Summary
When NLnet Labs Unbound 1.0.1 up to and including version 1.26.1 is configured with both a root trust anchor and an additional 'trust-anchor:' for an island-of-security zone whose parent is provably insecure under the root chain, a malicious actor with a forged NSEC reply with the SOA bit cleared can trick Unbound to treat the configured trust island as insecure. This happens because the DNSSEC validator in Unbound accepts and caches the NSEC insecure response bypassing the RRSIG validation that the validator was supposed to do. The acceptance of the NSEC record at the trust anchor apex was allowed due to and old fix for type DS and NSEC queries from clients when trust anchor for that name existed.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-354 - Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
Assigner
NLnet Labs CNA
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 66 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NLnet Labs Unbound Affected: 1.0.1 , < 1.26.2 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-10-21 00:00
Credits
Qifan Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
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